Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval, a study finds
Researchers have found that most cancer drugs granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration do not deliver on their early promise (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
2 women who say abortion restrictions put them in medical peril feel compelled to campaign for Biden
As he campaigns for a second term, President Joe Biden is highlighting how women’s health has been affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Victims of Montana asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffet's railroad to court
It's been almost 25 years since federal authorities, responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses, descended on the small northwestern Montana town of Libby to clean it up (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
St. Louis-area residents make plea for compensation for illnesses tied to nuclear contamination
People impacted by nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region are urging federal lawmakers to approve a plan to spend billions of dollars to compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Senior doctors in England agree on a pay deal with the government to end a yearlong dispute
Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong dispute (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
J&J to pump another $13B into its MedTech business with Shockwave deal
Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical, which specializes in technology that helps open clogged arteries (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Workers sue to overturn law that exempts Atlantic City casinos from indoor smoking ban
For three years, many Atlantic City casino workers have been trying to get their elected officials to ban smoking in the gambling halls, to no avail (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Senior doctors in England agree pay deal with UK government that will end year-long dispute
Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong dispute (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Nebraska lawmakers to debate a bill on transgender students' access to bathrooms and sports teams
A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to require anti-abortion group video, or comparable, in public schools
Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school students to watch a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group, or something comparable, under legislation heading to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s desk (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law
Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban have alleged that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Judge finds last 4 of 11 anti-abortion activists guilty in a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade
The final four of 11 anti-abortion activists charged with blocking access to a Tennessee clinic in 2021 have been convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
ALS drug will be pulled from US market after study showed patients didn't benefit
The maker of a drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease that recently failed in a study says it will pull the medicine from the U.S. market (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Police arrest 22 in EU raids linked to suspected theft of Italy's pandemic funds worth $650 million
Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
South Korea's president meets leader of doctors' strike as he seeks to end their walkouts
South Korea’s president has met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors and promised to respect their position during future talks over the government's contentious push to sharply increase medical school admissions (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
